Jake and Grayson fenced the gold medal bout of the loser's bracket; Max S. was refereeing but I took over part way through. Grayson kept hitting Jake off target, so Jake won. Jacob and Remi fenced their gold medal bout electric. Jacob was wearing his shiny new equipment and Remi was wearing my slightly beat-up mask and lame. Jacob was quite sure that Remi had dead spots, even though I am still using all of the equipment in my own bouting. Remi was up by about 5 points at the break ...
This is a hot topic that I have seen debated since I’ve been fencing and probably even before that. How to you train them, when do you start, how do they evolve. Our systems has people learn how to ref as they learning how to fence. Controversial? Yes. Effective? Very. When I moved down here and we made the announcement that we were going to host monthly tournaments, the existing fencing community looked at us like we had three heads and each one was sprouting an epee out of it. ...
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